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Bouledogue Français
Jean-Jacques Joujon
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 32 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 12.6 inch
$3,958
Lion in the bushes
James Mutisya
Painting - 119 x 117 x 2 cm Painting - 46.9 x 46.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Terra Incognita - Icare
Guillaume Pépy
Photography - 105 x 70 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 inch
$1,583
Manchots #2/8
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 30 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 11.8 inch
$13,005
The Horse and the Dancer
Theodore Stravinsky
Print - 25.4 x 19.1 x 0.2 cm Print - 10 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,583
My heart goes out...
Barbara Kieca
Painting - 110 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,357
Bengal tiger. strength and power.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$905
White eagle. A keen eye.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$905
La révolte du super lapinou
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
The snake's gaze. Hypnosis
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$905
Black Panther. Green Eye (1)
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$905
Walking in old Paris
Elena Shichko
Painting - 65 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Animal le chat Soulage - Large - French School -- Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,036
Chien blond vénitien
Hervé Maury
Painting - 20.2 x 40.4 x 3.5 cm Painting - 8 x 15.9 x 1.4 inch
$452
Chihuahua Gang Walking (Large) French School oil painting Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,262
Raging bull V (Large) French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,036
Animal Le chat Soulage - Large
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,036
Portrait Kitten - Cat - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,018
Animal octopus walk - Large - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,036
Raging Bull II NSWE (Large)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,149
St. George and the Dragon
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 inch
$13,797
Ka-e-ru
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 54 x 38 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.3 x 15 x 0 inch
$1,923
Forgiveness
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 x 2.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 x 0.9 inch
$2,036
Chimi Moryo
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
Elephant with red ballon h cm 78
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 78 x 37 x 37 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 14.6 x 14.6 inch
$16,963
Le cerf se voyant dans l'eau
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0 inch
$4,071
Contemplum #017
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$961
L'abreuvoir d'Eiffel
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$136
La mouche bleue (The Blue Fly)
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$848
Le petit Chaperaun rouge (2)
Jordi Sàbat
Painting - 30 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 2 inch
$735
Caress of Love
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Voyage entre deux mondes
Clara Crespin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Fondo marino - corales
Charo Velasco
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,470
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.